With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
BOB BROWNBehind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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